HELP!!!! No Display

August 7th, 2009, 07:32

Ok people I've got a BIG problem and I'd appreciate if someone here could help me.
Last night while I was trying to replace a hard disk with a DVD drive and after a dosen hard reboots I tried to turn on my PC to see that there's no display.
My monitor was giving me "No Signal" and no matter how many times I checked the connection there wasn't a sign of life.
I removed every unnecessary devise such as hard drives and CD Roms but nothing changed.
I thought that maybe there was some problem with my monitor so I moved my PC to the living room and connected it to the LCD with a S-Video cable.
Unfortunately there were no life signals either.
Finally I removed the CMOS battery for a few minutes and after putting it back the computer booted.
However after a restart it becomes "dead" again and I have to remove the CMOS battery to make it work again.
I connected a DVD drive and booted a LiveCD I had to ask for help.
My guess is that there's something wrong with the graphics card or the motherboard.
Any ideas?

I don't want to insult you and I assume that you did that, but: When checking connections did you also try removing the video card and insert it again? Just a(n amateurish) shot in the dark, and admittedly it doesn't fit with the battery phenomenon.

I borrowed a graphics card and a CMOS battery from a friend but there wasn't any improvement.
Actually the problem is in one of the motherboard's memory slots (thanks for the hint Squeek) and once I freed that slot everything was back to normal.Fortunately I just moved the memory to another slot and I'll avoid placing anything in the faulty one in the future.